Mathematics Primary level

The study area Mathematics Benchmark is informed by the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

Mathematics is a body of knowledge – a product that consists of a series of rich, interconnected conceptual structures made up of facts, techniques & skills, as well as concepts. At secondary school level, these structures are built around a small set of fundamental notions and their properties: numbers; constants, variables, and functions; twodimensional and three dimensional shapes, and measures of physical quantities; data, and measures of the likelihood of events 

Mathematics is also a way of thinking and a mode of enquiry – a creative process which helps us to discover and understand the world of mathematics and the relationships between the mathematical objects that inhabit this world. 

Finally, mathematics is a unique, rich, concise, precise, unambiguous, and universal language whose specialist vocabulary, symbolism, syntax, and semantics allows us to communicate ideas that cannot easily be communicated through other means. Moreover, as an internationally understood means of communication that goes beyond linguistic, cultural, and social barriers it enables us to share our ideas and understanding with others across time and space.